[cfe-dev] Fwd: [PATCH]: add support for FreeBSD

[Mike Stump]

On Oct 10, 2008, at 8:17 AM, Chris Lattner wrote:
>> I'm confused about why that would be useful.  Worst case you could
>> parse the output of 'system("uname -a")' or something, no?
>> Presumably uname is implemented in terms of some library/system
>> call, and that could just be used instead?

uname() is the usual routine to use, see man 3 uname for details.